Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement:
'The Saddest People the Sun Sees'
Christine Kinealy
978 1 85196 633 2: 234x156: £60.00/$99.00
This study offers invaluable insight into a much neglected area of historical research on this nineteenth-century political figure. While histories on O’Connell have focused predominantly on his attempt to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829, Kinealy turns to the neglected issue of O’Connell’s contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the US. She argues that by using his influences over the the Irish immigrants in the US, O'Connell negotiated a position of importance in the international debate over the right to freedom. The anti-slavery movement occupied an important place in O’Connell’s wider commitment to humanitarian politics. He was both a member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Secretary of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society and he developed an international reputation as an influential spokesman on the issue.
Readership
Nineteenth-Century, Irish Studies, Political History, History of Slavery and Abolition, American Studies